DraftJS TO Markdown

A library for converting DraftJS editor content to markdown.

This is draft to markdown library I wrote for one of my projects. I am open-sourcing it so that others can also be benefitted from my work.

Installation

npm install draftjs-to-markdown

Usage

import draftToMarkdown from 'draftjs-to-markdown';
import { convertToRaw } from 'draft-js';

const rawContentState = convertToRaw(editorState.getCurrentContent());
const markup = draftToMarkdown(contentState, hashConfig, customEntityTransform, config);

The function parameters are:

1. contentState: Its instance of RawDraftContentState

2. hashConfig: Its configuration object for hashtag, its required only if hashtags are used. If the object is not defined hashtags will be output as simple text in the markdown.

   hashConfig = {
     trigger: '#',
     separator: ' ',
   }
   

   Here trigger is character that marks starting of hashtag (default '#') and separator is character that separates characters (default ' '). These fields are optional.

3. customEntityTransform: Its function to render custom defined entities by user, its also optional.

4. config: Object to pass configuration options.

   {
     blockTypesMapping : {/* mappings */},
     emptyLineBeforeBlock : true
   }
   

   blockTypesMapping overrides the default markdown syntax. For example, to use an asterisk rather than a dash for unordered-list-item:

   {
     blockTypesMapping : {
       'unordered-list-item': '* '
     }
   }
   

   By default only one line break is added before a block. Pass emptyLineBeforeBlock: true to add two line breaks before every block.

   editorState is instance of DraftJS EditorState.

Supported conversions

Following is the list of conversions it supports:

1. Convert block types to corresponding markdown syntax:

   	Block Type	Markdown
   1	header-one	#
   2	header-two	##
   3	header-three	###
   4	header-four	####
   5	header-five	#####
   6	header-six	######
   7	unordered-list-item	-
   8	ordered-list-item	1.
   9	blockquote	>
   10	code
   11	unstyled	``

   It performs these additional changes to text of blocks:

   • replace blank space in beginning and end of block with  
   • replace \n with \s\s\n
   • replace < with <
   • replace > with >

2. Ordered and unordered list blocks with depths are appended with 4 blank spaces.

3. Converts inline styles BOLD, ITALIC, UNDERLINE, STRIKETHROUGH, CODE, SUPERSCRIPT, SUBSCRIPT to corresponding markdown syntax: **, *, __, ~~, ``, <sup>, <sub>.

4. Converts inline styles color, background-color, font-size, font-family to a span tag with inline style details: <span style="color:xyz;font-size:xx">. (In the input JSON, inline styles should start with strings color or font-size like color-red, color-green or fontsize-12, fontsize-20).

5. Converts entity range of type link to :[Link Text](Link URL).

6. Converts hashtags to :[hashtag](hashtag).

7. Converts atomic entity image to image tag using entity data src for image source: ![alt text](Image Source).

8. Converts embedded links to HTML iframe tags <iframe ... />.

9. For block level styles like text-alignment add <span> with style property around block content.

10. Supports using function customEntityTransform for custom draftjs entities. If present its call to generate markdown for entity. It can take 2 parameter:

11. entity ( object with { type, mutalibity, data})

12. text text present in the block.

License

MIT.